Archive for January, 2008
P2/3 painting with warm and cool colours
P2/3 have been learning about warm and cool colours. We painted strips of paper and wove them together to make our own tartan designs.
Posted: January 31st, 2008 under P2/3, school.
Comments: 3
Teamworking with Spaghetti & Jelly Babies
We have been working recently on our co-operation and teamworking skills. Today we were challenged to build the tallest tower using just jelly babies and sticks of spaghetti. It was harder than it sounds as the spaghetti broke easily and the jelly babies were all sticky. All the teams had to modify their original [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2008 under p5.
Comments: 4
Tartan for Burns
As part of the School Burn’s Assembly Primary 3 researched and created our own tartans.
We used a website to find our own family tartans and also to design a tartan online. In our art lessons we created our own tartans by painting stripes on 2 pieces of paper which we then cut into strips [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2008 under P3/4, school.
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Burns Celebration
In honour of Rabbie Burns, the children in Nursery helped to prepare a traditional meal of haggis, neeps and tatties to be enjoyed at snack time. In keeping with this theme we also joined in with some traditonal Scots rhymes about the weather and a scary creature called a horny golloch! The perfect introduction to [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2008 under Nursery.
Comments: 1
PTA Ceilidh
[ January 26, 2008; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] We look forward to seeing many of you at the PTA Ceilidh on Saturday in the school hall.
Posted: January 23rd, 2008 under Events, school.
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P6/7 Football - Douglas Allen Cup
Pencaitland Football Team put on a tremendous showing at the competition at Meadowmill Sports Centre this afternoon. The team played some lovely football to beat both St Gabriels and Whitecraigs, however they went down in a closely fought thriller against the eventual winners of the group, Wallyford. The team narrowly missed out on the chance [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2008 under p6, p7.
Comments: 4
A First for Nursery!
It’s been a long time coming but finally, it’s here! Welcome to the first Nursery blog of the session. This is another way for us to tell you all about Nursery events, and provide an opportunity for you to comment.
Last Thursday the morning children enjoyed a visit from The Puppet Lab who performed the [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2008 under Nursery.
Comments: 1
Community Police Visit
To accompany our ongoing theme of friendship, teamwork and anti-bullying the local community police officer came in to talk to us today. He was very friendly and talked to us about what bullying is, what effects bullying can have on others and what to do if you know someone is being bullied.
He was very patient [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2008 under p5.
Comments: 5